Is talent management just “old wine in new bottles”?: The case of multinational companies in Beijing

Management Research News

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 901-911

  Berrell, Mike ^a   Park, Jacob ^a   Chuai, Xin ^b   Iles, Paul ^c  

^a University of Teesside ^*

^b TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China; Human resource management; Leadership development; Multinational companies; Organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 72749095397     PISSN: 01409174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01409170810920611     Document Type: Article

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